Weighing the Baghdādī "Raṭl": A Metrological Muddle
This study addresses a metrological muddle: attempts to determine the metrical equivalence of the Baghdādī raṭl, a measure for coins, commerce, and religious requirements during the Abbasid and Mamluk eras. Western writers Sauvaire and Hinz interpreted the measure of the widespread Baghdādī raṭl by...
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Oxford University Press
2023
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Journal of Semitic studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 68, Issue: 2, Pages: 581-634 |
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